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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785117603321

Titolo

Securitization theory : how security problems emerge and dissolve / / edited by Thierry Balzacq

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-135-24613-0

1-135-24614-9

1-282-88641-X

9786612886416

0-203-86850-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

PRIO new security studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BalzacqThierry

Disciplina

355/.0330001

Soggetti

Security, International

National security

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Contributors; Preface; 1 A theory of securitization: Origins, core assumptions, and variants; 2 Enquiries into methods: A new framework for securitization analysis; Part I The rules of securitization; 3 Reconceptualizing the audience in securitization theory; 4 Securitization as a media frame: What happens when the media 'speak security'; 5 The limits of spoken words: From meta-narratives to experiences of security; 6 When securitization fails: The hard case of counter-terrorism programs

Part II Securitization and de-securitization in practice7 Rethinking the securitization of the environment: Old beliefs, new insights; 8 Health issues and securitization: The construction of HIV/AIDS as a US national security threat; 9 Securitization, culture and power: Rogue states in US and German discourse; 10 Religion bites: Falungong, securitization/desecuritization in the People's Republic of China; 11 The continuing evolution of securitization theory; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve.? Securitisation theory has become



one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book represents the first attempt to provide an integrated and rigorous overview of securitization practices within a coherent framework. To do so, it organizes securitization around three core assumptions which make the theory applicable to empirical studies: the centrality of audience, the co-de